Over the weekend, drove to Pietown for the annual Pietown Pie Festival. I don’t know if it’s the altitude (Pietown is right on the contiental divide), the desert air, or the buckets of lard, or maybe all three, but the citizens of this desolate rural patch of high desert produce some of the best pies […]
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Pie-lot Episode Leave a comment
First Day of School Leave a comment
Only 12 more grades to go Hank goes to kindergarten. A little nervous on his first day. Ursula and Anthony from his roadrunners pre-k class will also be attending University Hills near campus, so that makes him feel better. Â I didn’t see any evidence of kindergarten cholo/gang activity, a big plus right there. The new […]
Birthday Diary Leave a comment
The gracious host guarding the goods  Henry’s party came off pretty well despite the usual crazy winds. Had a great time with the parents and all the kids seemd to enjoy the festivities. On Friday we went out with the Pierards to Katana, Henry’s current fave eatery because of the culinary pyrotechnics. This eruption […]
Big #5 coming up Leave a comment
Somehow, by some random cosmic accident, H is about to reach the age of 5 without burning down the house, causing a lawsuit, or creating any other natural or unnatural calamities (that we know of). But he’s going to give it one more try on Saturday when we host a big birthday party for his Hankness. We hope to have […]